Sleepers Quotes:

A Single journey can change the course of a life.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Journey, Courses, Sleepers

The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.

- Anthony de Mello

source: Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.149, Image

topic: Mystic, Sleepers, Feigning

I was a bit of a sleeper-inner.

- Rod Stewart

topic: Sleepers, Bits

The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution-the principle of life. He is an agitator, a disturber of the peace-quick, impatient, positive, restless and disquieting. He is the creative spirit of life working in the the soul of man.

- Norman Bethune

topic: Men, Artist, Creative, Spirit Of Life, Creative Spirit

Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.

- Serena Williams

topic: Dream, Sleepers

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

- Heraclitus

topic: Sleep, Insomnia, Goes On, Collaborators, Sleepers

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

topic: Long, Design, Politics, Sleepers, Great Design

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

- Emily Bronte

source: Wuthering Heights ch. 34 (1847)

topic: Wind, Sky, Breathing, Benign, Heathcliff

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

- Eugene O'Neill

topic: Happiness, Contentment, Joyful, Being Joyful, Sleepers

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Sea, Land, Long, Dry Land, Sleepers

Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace.

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Peace, Sleep, Wake Up, Sleepers

Faites de beaux rêves, monsieur," she called as she put out the light. Switters had always loved that expression, "Make fine dreams." In contrast to the English, "Have sweet dreams," the French implied that the sleeper was not a passive spectator, a captive audience, but had some control over and must accept some responsiblity for his or her dreaming. Moreover, a "fine" dream had much wider connotations than a "sweet" one.

- Tom Robbins

topic: Dream, Sweet, Light, Connotation, Sweet Dreams

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

- Florence Welch

topic: Sleep, Dark, Light, Nighttime, Sleepers

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

- Rumi

topic: Dream, Real, Grief, Sleepers

Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1697, Delphi Classics

topic: Stress, Thinking, Devil, Sleepers

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

- Leonardo da Vinci

source: Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

topic: Wise, Art, Sleep, Perfect Life, Sleepers

The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches. The solitary traveler, haunter of lanes, disturber of ferns, and devastator of hemlock plants, looking up, suddenly sees the giant figure at the end of the ride.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.56, Broadview Press

topic: Twilight, Moving, Knitting, Hemlock, Snoring

Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Stars, Flower, Moon, Dreamy, Hemlock

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Change Is Good, Sleepers

I am a terrible sleeper.

- Matt Smith

topic: Terrible, Sleepers

If somebody murders somewhere, I have a part in it. Even if I am a sleeper - I was sleeping, I don´t know about the man, I will never hear about him - and somebody somewhere, in the Himalayas, commits a murder, if we are not individuals I have a part in it, I am also responsible. It is not so easy to throw the responsibility: "I am not committing a murder, I am a saint." No saint is a saint because every sinner is implied in him.

- Rajneesh

topic: Sleep, Responsibility, Men, Sleepers

Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.

- Juliet Marillier

topic: Dark, Forever, Risk, Dark Places, Sleepers

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.

- Tony Kushner

source: "Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.

topic: Ideas, Theatre, Waking, Waking Life, Countenance

It was apparent that all of mankind is actually motivated by inner love, but has simply become unaware; most people live their lives as though they're sleepers unawakened to the perception of who they really are.

- David Hawkins

topic: Life, People, Perception, Sleepers

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

- Billy Bragg

source: Song: Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

topic: Sleep, Waiting, Activist, Sleepers

The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

- H. G. Wells

source: H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.229, Xist Publishing

topic: Dream, Opportunity, Men, Incorporating, Sleepers

There is not a dream which may not come true, if we have the energy which makes, or chooses, our own fate.... It is only the dreams of those light sleepers who dream faintly that do not come true.

- Arthur Symons

source: Poems of Ernest Dowson introduction (1900)

topic: Dream, Fate, Light, Sleepers

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

- James G. Frazer

source: "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

topic: People, Soul, Might, Sleepers

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1867). “Barnaby Rudge: And, Hard Times”, p.90

topic: Country, War, Rain, Sleepers

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

- Meghan O'Rourke

topic: Dog, Memories, Grief, Saboteurs, Jingles

I'm a light sleeper, but so long as I'm wearing earplugs, I sleep well.

- Britt Ekland

topic: Sleep, Light, Long, Sleep Well, Sleepers

Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that only the few will be saved and the many damned, have been shed, replaced by strummed guitars and saccharine smiles. It has reinvented itself so often, and with such breathtaking hypocrisy, in the interests of retaining its hold on the gullible, that a medieval monk who woke today, like Woody Allen's Sleeper, would not be able to recognise the faith that bears the same name as his own.

- A.C. Grayling

source: "Can an atheist be a fundamentalist?" by A. C. Grayling, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2006.

topic: Guitar, Names, Hypocrisy, Retaining, Sleepers

I am a sleeper. When you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to do a workout, you're sleepy at 8 in the evening. By 10 o'clock at the latest, I'm in bed.

- Michelle Obama

source: "Michelle Obama’s tips for being happy, healthy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.today.com. October 5, 2009.

topic: Workout, Morning, Bed, Sleepers

You might be a redneck if your mother has been involved in a fist fight at a high school sports event.

- Jeff Foxworthy

source: Jeff Foxworthy, David Boyd (2004). “You might be a redneck if--”, Rutledge Hill Pr

topic: Sports, Mother, School, Hunting Dog, Driveway

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

- Gloria Vanderbilt

topic: Dream, Mind, Fiction, Sleepers

There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Thinking, Hands, Body, Foreheads, Sleepers

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

- John Donne

source: Songs and Sonnets "The Good-Morrow" (published 1633)

topic: Love, Country, Wonder, Dens, Sleepers

Oft in the silence of the night, When the lonely moon rides high, When wintry winds are whistling, And we hear the owl's shrill cry, In the quiet, dusky chamber, By the flickering firelight, Rising up between two sleepers, Comes a spirit all in white.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: Louisa May Alcott (2001). “My Little Friend: And Other Stories”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Lonely, Whistling, Sleepers

Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together. Then the morning comes, the wavering grey turns to gold, there is stirring within me as the sleepers awake, and he softly departs.

- Kamala Markandaya

source: Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”

topic: Morning, Husband, Night, Stirring, Sleepers

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

- Jessamyn West

topic: Inspiring, Religious, Inspirational Love, Sleepers

My Heart I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain" to another. I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie, not just a sleeper, but also the big, overproduced first-run kind. I want to be at least as alive as the vulgar. And if some aficionado of my mess says "That's not like Frank!," all to the good! I don't wear brown and grey suits all the time, do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera, often. I want my feet to be bare, I want my face to be shaven, and my heart--you can't plan on the heart, but the better part of it, my poetry, is open.

- Frank O'Hara

topic: Running, Heart, Feet, Bad Movies, Sleepers

A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Sleep, Needs, Jars, Sleepers

There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the pages like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

source: Rainer Maria Rilke (1930). “The Journal of My Other Self”

topic: Dream, Reading, Moving, Reading Room, Sleepers

When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five will return and one go alone. Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long; Wood from the burning; stone out of song; Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw; Six signs the circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old. Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea. All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.

- Susan Cooper

source: Susan Cooper (2007). “The Dark Is Rising: Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

topic: Song, Dark, Light, Sleepers

I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.

- Wislawa Szymborska

topic: Angel, Hands, Waiting, Sleepers

Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.

- Sarah Silverman

topic: Children, Growing Up, Taken, Sleepers

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Dream, Wish, Inspired, Tale Of Two Cities, Sleepers

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Song, Children, Wall, Watchers, Fire And Ice